==== The trap of 'StartsWith' and equivalents When validating untrusted URLs by checking if they start with a trusted scheme and authority pair `scheme://authority`, **ensure that the validation string contains a path separator `/` as the last character**. + If the validation string does not contain a terminating path separator, the SSRF vulnerability remains; only the exploitation technique changes. Thus, a validation like `startsWith("https://example.com")` or an equivalent with the regex `^https://example\.com.*` can be exploited with the following URL `\https://example.commit.malicious.io`.